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personificate

personificate verb: to personify.

Verb

personificate (third-person singular simple present personificates, present participle personificating, simple past and past participle personificated)

  1. (nonstandard, transitive, chiefly non-native speakers' English) To personify.
    • What about the GOP asians,^([sic]) personificated by former GOP Rep Kim of the Inland Empire...2002 February 14, Brian O'Neill, “Pity The Corrupt Rich White People”, in alt.impeach.bush (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026
    • I guess it is most reasonable to imagine the I-E [Indo-European] tribes as having a form of animism originally, personificating any force of nature as a deity, as the early Romans did also, among them the bright sky of the day, which was commonly imagined as a cosmic father, and also the earth, as...2002 February 14, Florian Blaschke, “Split Between the Zoroastrians and the Hindus”, in sci.archaeology (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026

Forms of personificate

third-person singular presentpersonificates
present participlepersonificating
past participlepersonificated
pastpersonificated

Origin of personificate

Back-formation from personification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish personificar and Italian personificare.

Questions about personificate

What does personificate mean?
Personificate means to personify.
What part of speech is personificate?
Personificate is a verb.
What is the past tense of personificate?
The past tense of personificate is personificated.

Words near personificate in the dictionary

  1. personhunts
  2. personible
  3. personid
  4. personids
  5. personifiable
  6. personificate
  7. personificated
  8. personificates
  9. personificating
  10. personification
  11. personifications

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